Well - we've been taking lessons from them on how to create a "Bubble Economy", at least.
The NASDAQ hit a two year low yesterday in case you weren't looking.
Most tech companies are posting big profit warnings. Lucent appears to have fundamental financial problems. Motorola is laying off a ton of people. These things do not a collapse make, but it makes Greenspan's warnings of "Irrational Exuberance" hit a lot closer to home.
The bubble burst in Japan a decade ago, and they still haven't really recovered. The similarities, especially in real estate over-valuation, are kind of scary.
Lots of folks in this thread seem to be referring to Kernel 2.4.1 as a test kernel.
This doesn't seem to jibe with my understanding of the kernel tree. I believe that any *.even-numbered revision is a productions kernel. *.odd-numbered kernels are the development branches. For example, any 2.3 kernel was development for the 2.4 kernel. You can still have 2.4.1test1 or 2.4.2pre3 however.
But this brings me to my question - where is the 2.5 kernel series? Do we have any goals stated for Kernel 2.6?
If battery life really lives up to claims, then I think this could wind up filling the space between PDAs and desktop-replacement notebooks quite handily.
1970 - George Lucas makes _THX-1138_, a plodding didactic film about the dehumanizing aspects of technology and holographic characters virtually indistinguishable from real people.
2000 - George Lucas opts for a CGI Artoo instead of a real actor.
Perhaps a new reading of THX-1138 is in order? Perhaps Lucas what actually portraying his utopian vision of humanity's future rather than the dystopian hell everyone assumed he was talking about.
I guess it only took him 30 years to lose his soul.
Orbital debris is the probably the single greatest hazard for any planned satellite or space station. Something like this will make sustained development of orbital frontiers much more feasible.
I'm getting antsy to see us (globally, not in a U.S.ian sense) put more send more platforms up the gravity well. All of the more realistic proposals for interstellar/interplanetary travel involve orbital construction.
And again, I think that sustainable development is key. What's the orbital equivalent of ecology? Vacuumology? La Grange-ology?
Well, Simple Machines doesn't really exist as a record label anymore. But, killing two birds with one stone, you can find them on the web at:
The Machine at Insound
Even if someone's not owned by a major label, a semi-indie will often have ties by distribution to a major. Plus, for a few years now, major labels have been creating scam indies that are wholly owned but marketed as an indie. Pretty dirty stuff. Maximum Rock-N-Roll had a great chart when they did the major label issue that had the infamous Albini article, plus Punk Planet has reported on it a bit. There might be some info on punkplanet.com.
Also, I believe the Southern distribution alliance is pretty clean of major ties. They handle Touch&Go, Dischord, Simple Machines, and other great indie labels. There's also an online CD/Vinyl retailer who seems to handle a lot of indie labels. The name's escaping me though because I only found them once through a broadcast.com banner. Outersound? Intersound? This ring a bell with anybody?
Re:Yeah, but when are we gonna effectively use it?
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1394 isn't 400 megabytes a second it's 400 megaBITS a second. that's 50 megabytes per second. you can easily max that out with a couple newer drives on the bus.
Crap... that really disappoints me. That means that the gigabit Ethernet shipping with the G4's is effectively faster than the Firewire ports. The only advantage being the plug&play device management. That really pokes holes in my thinking of Firewire being a valuable storage technology. I guess those SCSI cards are still essential after all.
-carl
Yeah, but when are we gonna effectively use it?
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As it stands, we treat our hard drives like really big bags in which to keep all of our stuff.
We don't have the bus speeds or the interfaces to really take advantage of drives this big. You can spin that drive as many RPMs as you want, but do you really think that ATA/100 is going to amount to that much real-world speed? Even the firewire spec, which everybody talks about being such hot shit, doesn't come near to the promised 400MB/s throughputs.
Sure, you can keep a whole heap of DVD movies and MP3's on these huge drives, but it's gonna be some time before technologies start catching up to drives of this capacity.
Also, I'm not an expert on Linux file systems. Can Linux take advantage of huge drives like this for fast searching? Apple's HFS+ does a pretty good job, but the lag starts to show at hefty drive sizes.
Consolidation in the media sector has been churning like a freight train for quite some time now. Seriously, most mainstream media is owned by one of like three companies. Time-Warner, Sony, and whatever French company bought up Seagrams.
Think of them as dinosaurs, slow, lumbering, inefficient, and easy to dodge.
Unless they're actually intruding, i.e. busting through firewalls or cracking in some way, it seems that this falls well within "fair use" of TCP/IP. When I was larval, I would scan any network I could find just to see how it was put together.
If you don't want companies like this to see it, lock it down. It's not hard.
Great! Now I'll have that other hand free for... well, you know.
-carl
IBM doesn't know how to utilize Transmeta
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I had always been under the impression that the reason Crusoe is such hot shit is that its power consumption is so low. So it's not blazing fast - big deal. Do you need to do 3-d rendering during your AM commute? Of course not.
Besides, handhelds are where Transmeta is really going to clean up. It seems to me like Transmeta isn't really going head-to-head against Intel. It's the ARM and Dragonball folks that should watch out.
What ever happened to the Crusoe Linux kernel that Linus was working on. Any news on that? I'm wondering - does it run in the x86 emulation mode, or in native and therefore faster Crusoe mode?
I beleive it is GPL'd, but aren't sure of the present status of it... see the homepage for it... I wonder if there are any other Open Source ERP projects out there...
It looks like they've been stalled in development since summer of last year, from looking at the web page.
Which is a shame, because it's probably unlikely that BAAN is going to go open-source given the imminent buyout.
The concept of an ERP is an interesting one - the company I work for is implementing Lawson in a half-assed and backward-headed way over the next year, and it looks like if you're a company that works with heterogeneous goods and services, you can really use it to manage costs, consumption, and efficiency.
The thing is, the ERP market seems to be dominated by Big Blue-style MBA-having professionals. Not a whiff of geek around any of the companies I've seen. The earlier comment that ERP specialists are like gold makes me wonder if I shouldn't look into this stuff more...
Maybe they should have left everything as numbers. Domain names have becoem hot-commodity property. If they had simply used numbers then 126.125.10.154 could have been called whatever the user wanted to call it.
Trust me - Domain Naming is a GOOD THING. Having a decentralized system of DNS servers is what makes it possible for you to move your web server from your SPARC box in your office to a co-lo facility inside a missile silo in South Dakota and have users still be able to find the server after the DNS refreshes even though the IP has changed.
This was the lead story on Salon yesterday. Sort of old-ish news.
Perhaps/. should start putting Salon's headlines in a the sidebar, given how often stories are linked to Salon.
I just found out that Salon had an IPO last year. The stock is hovering around 1.5 dollars right now. Lots of it is available to the public - few institutional shareholders. I hope they don't get bought out by Time-Warner or Conde Nast. I've always been pretty impressed by how ambitious they can be with the reporting.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmn. Apparently Doctor Bronner didn't die after all.
All One!
Dilute! Dilute!
love,
-carl
Well - we've been taking lessons from them on how to create a "Bubble Economy", at least.
The NASDAQ hit a two year low yesterday in case you weren't looking.
Most tech companies are posting big profit warnings. Lucent appears to have fundamental financial problems. Motorola is laying off a ton of people. These things do not a collapse make, but it makes Greenspan's warnings of "Irrational Exuberance" hit a lot closer to home.
The bubble burst in Japan a decade ago, and they still haven't really recovered. The similarities, especially in real estate over-valuation, are kind of scary.
love,
-carl
"We don't care, we don't have to care; We're the Phone Company."
- An old Lily Tomlin bit from SNL in the 70s.
carl
"We don't care, dHave to care; We're the Phone Company."
- An old Lily Tomlin bit from SNL in the 70s.
carl
Lots of folks in this thread seem to be referring to Kernel 2.4.1 as a test kernel.
This doesn't seem to jibe with my understanding of the kernel tree. I believe that any *.even-numbered revision is a productions kernel. *.odd-numbered kernels are the development branches. For example, any 2.3 kernel was development for the 2.4 kernel. You can still have 2.4.1test1 or 2.4.2pre3 however.
But this brings me to my question - where is the 2.5 kernel series? Do we have any goals stated for Kernel 2.6?
-carl
If battery life really lives up to claims, then I think this could wind up filling the space between PDAs and desktop-replacement notebooks quite handily.
Only one question - white Mobile Linux?
-carl
1970 - George Lucas makes _THX-1138_, a plodding didactic film about the dehumanizing aspects of technology and holographic characters virtually indistinguishable from real people.
2000 - George Lucas opts for a CGI Artoo instead of a real actor.
Perhaps a new reading of THX-1138 is in order? Perhaps Lucas what actually portraying his utopian vision of humanity's future rather than the dystopian hell everyone assumed he was talking about.
I guess it only took him 30 years to lose his soul.
-carl
Orbital debris is the probably the single greatest hazard for any planned satellite or space station. Something like this will make sustained development of orbital frontiers much more feasible.
I'm getting antsy to see us (globally, not in a U.S.ian sense) put more send more platforms up the gravity well. All of the more realistic proposals for interstellar/interplanetary travel involve orbital construction.
And again, I think that sustainable development is key. What's the orbital equivalent of ecology? Vacuumology? La Grange-ology?
-carl
Well, Simple Machines doesn't really exist as a record label anymore. But, killing two birds with one stone, you can find them on the web at: The Machine at Insound
Your kung-fu is strong indeed.
-carlEven if someone's not owned by a major label, a semi-indie will often have ties by distribution to a major. Plus, for a few years now, major labels have been creating scam indies that are wholly owned but marketed as an indie. Pretty dirty stuff. Maximum Rock-N-Roll had a great chart when they did the major label issue that had the infamous Albini article, plus Punk Planet has reported on it a bit. There might be some info on punkplanet.com.
Here's a some pretty current infoAlso, I believe the Southern distribution alliance is pretty clean of major ties. They handle Touch&Go, Dischord, Simple Machines, and other great indie labels. There's also an online CD/Vinyl retailer who seems to handle a lot of indie labels. The name's escaping me though because I only found them once through a broadcast.com banner. Outersound? Intersound? This ring a bell with anybody?
Crap... that really disappoints me. That means that the gigabit Ethernet shipping with the G4's is effectively faster than the Firewire ports. The only advantage being the plug&play device management. That really pokes holes in my thinking of Firewire being a valuable storage technology. I guess those SCSI cards are still essential after all.
-carl
As it stands, we treat our hard drives like really big bags in which to keep all of our stuff.
We don't have the bus speeds or the interfaces to really take advantage of drives this big. You can spin that drive as many RPMs as you want, but do you really think that ATA/100 is going to amount to that much real-world speed? Even the firewire spec, which everybody talks about being such hot shit, doesn't come near to the promised 400MB/s throughputs.
Sure, you can keep a whole heap of DVD movies and MP3's on these huge drives, but it's gonna be some time before technologies start catching up to drives of this capacity.
Also, I'm not an expert on Linux file systems. Can Linux take advantage of huge drives like this for fast searching? Apple's HFS+ does a pretty good job, but the lag starts to show at hefty drive sizes.
-carl
Consolidation in the media sector has been churning like a freight train for quite some time now. Seriously, most mainstream media is owned by one of like three companies. Time-Warner, Sony, and whatever French company bought up Seagrams.
Think of them as dinosaurs, slow, lumbering, inefficient, and easy to dodge.
-carl
Yeah, I just finished reading _Infinite Jest_ for like the third time and my head is all full of Boston argot. But personally, I live in Appalachia.
-carlNPR did a segment on this magazine yesterday. It sounds wicked-smart.
Sort of like suck in that it busts a hole in the whole dot-com thing.
I recommend it.
-carl
Unless they're actually intruding, i.e. busting through firewalls or cracking in some way, it seems that this falls well within "fair use" of TCP/IP. When I was larval, I would scan any network I could find just to see how it was put together.
If you don't want companies like this to see it, lock it down. It's not hard.
-carl
Great! Now I'll have that other hand free for... well, you know.
-carl
I had always been under the impression that the reason Crusoe is such hot shit is that its power consumption is so low. So it's not blazing fast - big deal. Do you need to do 3-d rendering during your AM commute? Of course not.
Besides, handhelds are where Transmeta is really going to clean up. It seems to me like Transmeta isn't really going head-to-head against Intel. It's the ARM and Dragonball folks that should watch out.
What ever happened to the Crusoe Linux kernel that Linus was working on. Any news on that? I'm wondering - does it run in the x86 emulation mode, or in native and therefore faster Crusoe mode?
-carl
I beleive it is GPL'd, but aren't sure of the present status of it... see the homepage for it... I wonder if there are any other Open Source ERP projects out there...
It looks like they've been stalled in development since summer of last year, from looking at the web page.
Which is a shame, because it's probably unlikely that BAAN is going to go open-source given the imminent buyout.
The concept of an ERP is an interesting one - the company I work for is implementing Lawson in a half-assed and backward-headed way over the next year, and it looks like if you're a company that works with heterogeneous goods and services, you can really use it to manage costs, consumption, and efficiency.
The thing is, the ERP market seems to be dominated by Big Blue-style MBA-having professionals. Not a whiff of geek around any of the companies I've seen. The earlier comment that ERP specialists are like gold makes me wonder if I shouldn't look into this stuff more...
-carl
There is an open source ERP in development for the AS/400 - WyattERP.
I would rather be drawn and quartered than deal with an AS/400 on a regular, professional basis.
Don't they still use EBCDIC for god's sake? You can't get more legacy than that...
-carl
but when I did a search on Microsoft.com during our little tussle with them last month, I didn't find it.
What ever happened with that tussle, anyhow? Did MS slink away when Andover's lawyers got tough or what?
-carl
Trust me - Domain Naming is a GOOD THING. Having a decentralized system of DNS servers is what makes it possible for you to move your web server from your SPARC box in your office to a co-lo facility inside a missile silo in South Dakota and have users still be able to find the server after the DNS refreshes even though the IP has changed.
-carlThis was the lead story on Salon yesterday. Sort of old-ish news.
/. should start putting Salon's headlines in a the sidebar, given how often stories are linked to Salon.
Perhaps
I just found out that Salon had an IPO last year. The stock is hovering around 1.5 dollars right now. Lots of it is available to the public - few institutional shareholders. I hope they don't get bought out by Time-Warner or Conde Nast. I've always been pretty impressed by how ambitious they can be with the reporting.
-carl
Huh? I guess JonKatz is fully buzzword-compliant now.
-carl
Yeah, but it's not nearly as much fun being on dole here in the States. ;)
-carl